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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.


Tennessee Williams

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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS I want to do a Tennessee Williams play.
COBIE SMULDERS I was a lusty kid who loved Tennessee Williams.
ST. VINCENT I love Tennessee Williams pieces; they are so poetic and I love period pieces.
RICHARD HATCH I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI I write because I don't why I write.
MARTY RUBIN And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN People go to the movies instead of moving.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN I've always had an affinity for writers who have a poetry background, so I always liked Tennesse...
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ELI WALLACH Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are...
LAILA ROBINS That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stu...
CIARAN HINDS Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic mea...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS And so I write. I write my life. I write to escape real life. I write to live moments over again. I ...
R.B. O'BRIEN That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn’t funny the first time through. Most tim...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo...
HORTON FOOTE Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels.
DAKIN WILLIAMS Why do you write meaningless philosophy?” you asked.
“Because it gives meaning to life,”...
DEBASISH MRIDHA I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but becaus...
CAMERON DOKEY Tennessee Williams knew about the South, but he would clean it up and lie about it.
PAUL MOONEY I don't know why Brian Williams isn't blogging right now,
JEFF ZUCKER I have never sought the reason why I write.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus...
ORHAN PAMUK That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back...
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KIM CATTRALL I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry B...
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ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
GLORIA SWANSON I think it was somewhat unsatisfactory.
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CHUCK PALAHNIUK I write romance because I love to read romance.
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TAYLOR FENNER American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Cli...
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JOHN GREEN Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!
MAX SCHMELLING 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school whe...
JAKE T. AUSTIN I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's w...
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JACKI WEAVER I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.
JAMAL LEWIS I did what I did because of drugs. They controlled my life.
JOSEPH SKIPPER I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because the water is cold in th...
WENDY LIEBMAN Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has a...
ADHIR KALYAN Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer...
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CAMILO CELA I write from solitude and I speak from solitude...However I did not seek solitude. I found it. And f...
CAMILO JOSE CELA Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
THOMAS BERGER Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, "Why, I've always thought t...
PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
DANIEL ALARCON Why poetry, you ask?
Because of life, I answer.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC I can't write a scene unless I've visualized it. Unless I can actually see it, and that'...
ERIC VAN LUSTBADER I was inside Sherwin-Williams and somebody asked, 'who owns a white truck?' I said I did, 'well, it'...
ROBERT OLSON I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
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JOHN STUART MILL Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivat...
JOHN STUART MILLS I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonde...
C. JOYBELL C. I write because I love it, not because I excel at it.  But because I write, I shall slowly e...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity ...
KRISTIN ARMSTRONG I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
T-PAIN Oh, my goodness I never thought I'd be here in my whole life growing up in Tennessee.
REESE WITHERSPOON When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off ...
JACKI WEAVER Why did I sign up for this?'

'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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JACKIE CHAN I think it was somewhat unsatisfactory for those who rushed dinner to get here.
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BECCA FITZPATRICK I feel very privileged Williams has selected me as one of their race drivers. The team has great her...
BRUNO SENNA When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
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GISELE BUNDCHEN I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone...
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JONATHAN COE I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY I know exactly why he did it. Because he felt like Appleby tried to elbow him.
BRANDON ROY I write what I see; I paint what I am.
ETEL ADNAN I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
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TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is prepar...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewr...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You said, They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people. -- What, I asked you, is harmle...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincer...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS You can't cheat the public for long.
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD